Google has extended its Search Options feature to mobile devices.

In a blog post the firm announced that it had added the ability to filter and refine search results on a handset in much the same way that users do when browsing the fixed web.

Google only announced the fixed web version of Search Options recently, rolling out the ability to drill down into search results within a certain time period or just in forum posts or reviews. All of these features are now offered in the mobile version of its search pages, on Android/iPhone/Palm WebOS devices.

Reza Ziaei, software engineer at the Google Mobile Team, said "Finding the exact information you need sometimes requires filtering and refining your search results... Today, we are making Search Options available on Android/iPhone/Palm WebOS devices so that you can slice and dice your mobile search results as well."

So far the service is only available in the US, but given the nature of the internet we would expect to see it over here some day soon...ish.

08 Oct 2009